OREANDA-NEWS. July 09, 2015.  The delegation held talks with Prof Andres Upik, Mr Reijo Karu, and Mrs Marit Kauk-Kuusik on the future cooperation between TUT Department of Material Sciences and ZJUT College of Materials Science and Engineering. They also visited the laboratories of Material Sciences accompanied by Marit.

Prof Sun Yi, the Dean of ZJUT Ocean College visited Estonian Maritime Academy campus, held talk with Mr Anatoli Alop on future cooperation between two colleges.

In the afternoon, the delegation toured around the MEKTORY and were introduced to the modern facilities and entrepreneurial spirit in TUT Innovation and Business Centre. President Zhang and his team were satified with the visit and emphaseized two universities would continue strengthening and expanding the cooperation.

Zhejiang University of Technology is located in the city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. It is considered one of the top industrial universities in mainland China (ranked no. 8 in Top 10 Chinese Industrial University) and the second largest university in Zhejiang Province. Engineering, especially chemical and biological engineering, is the strongest discipline in ZJUT. At the moment, the number of ZJUT students reaches over 30000 people, including: bachelor 28502; master 8307; doctorate 595, and 866 international students.

ZJUT and TUT signed MoU and student exchange agreements in November 2013, since then both universities have been cooperating very closely in terms of summer school, students exchange, and staff training programmes.

TUT-ZJUT cooperation activates during the period of 2012-2015:

  • 2012 October, TUT delegation first visited ZJUT and held info session with SiE delegation
  • 2013 March, TUT info session and IT workshop held at ZJUT Information Engineering College
  • 2013 November, TUT and ZJUT signing MoU and Student Exchange agreement
  • 2014 March-April, ZJUT three administrative staff members from Information Engineering College and Computer Science and Technology College participated TUT Staff Training Week, meeting with representatives of IT faculty, discussing cooperation in summer school
  • 2014 July-August, a group of IT students participated the TUT ELNC summer school
  • 2014 Autumn semester, three ZJUT exchange students came for exchange semester
  • 2014 November, TUT Vice-Rector’s visit ZJUT, visited design and innovation centre
  • 2015 March, TUT Vice-Rector’s visit, opened Xinhua Photo Exhibition, conducted info session
  • 2015 July, ZJUT delegation (7 members) led by President Zhang visiting TUT
  • 2015 July-August, ZJUT 12 students will participate the TUT RoboPro summer school
  • 2015 Autumn semester, two ZJUT exchange students will come for exchange semester